Clinical trials: Elastography
Liver Fibrosis, Liver Steatosis
The Sonic Incytes Liver Incyte System, Assessment of Liver Fibrosis and Steatosis
Evaluate the feasibility of the Liver Incyte system for liver elasticity measurement in healthy volunteers and patients with liver fibrosis.
- Trial name
- NCT03957070
- Testing
- Liver Incyte
- Where
- 2 sites in United States, Canada
- Volunteers
- 140 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Sonic Incytes
Fontan Operation
Stage 3 Fontan Operation Liver Ultrasound Study
The purpose of this study is to compare the liver stiffness, which can be caused by congestion and fibrosis in pediatric patients before and after a Fontan heart operation.
- Trial name
- NCT02269709
- Testing
- ARFI Ultrasound
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 21 people
- Sponsor
- University of Michigan
Liver Fibrosis, Liver Diseases
Beyond Confounders: Addressing Source of Measurement Variability and Error in Shear Wave Elastography
Chronic liver disease is a major problem in the general population and there is an unmet need to diagnose(and screen) for liver disease with using noninvasive, cost-effective and sensitive techniques.The investigators hypothesize…
- Trial name
- NCT03342560
- Testing
- Sonographic SWE measurements with 4 different ultrasound systems
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 30 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Acute Kidney Disease, Chronic Kidney Disease
Shear Wave Elastography in Native Kidney Disease
In this proposal, the aim is to examine shear wave elastography (SWE) measurements in diseased native kidneys and correlate them with grades of fibrosis using histological samples.
- Trial name
- NCT02830438
- Testing
- Shear wave elastography
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 8 people
- Sponsor
- Albert Einstein Healthcare Network
Pudendal Nerve, Healthy Women
Pelvic Floor Shear-Wave Elastography in Healthy and Pudendal Neuralgia Women
This study will compare superficial pelvic floor shear-wave elastography between healthy women and women with pudendal neuralgia.
- Trial name
- ELANEP (NCT07458737)
- Testing
- Pelvic floor shear wave elastography, Pelvic Floor Impact Questionnaire-Short Form 7 (PFIQ-7), Female Sexual Distress Scale-Revised (FSDS-R)
- Where
- Slovakia
- Volunteers
- 94 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Comenius University
Liver Cirrhosis
Transient Elastography in Autoimmune Hepatitis
Recent, research has focused on the evaluation of non-invasive methods for the assessment of liver fibrosis in patients with chronic liver disease. Among these methods, transient elastography is the most promising.
- Trial name
- NCT01905254
- Testing
- Transient elastography (TE), Liver biopsy
- Where
- Germany
- Volunteers
- 34 people
- Sponsor
- Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf
Bone Marrow Transplant Complications, Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome
Ultrasound Elastography to Predict Development of SOS
The long-term goal of our research is to accurately identify SOS patients who would benefit from defibrotide treatment using US SWE. The overall objective of this study is to validate SWE as an early diagnostic marker for SOS.
- Conditions
- Bone Marrow Transplant Complications, Sinusoidal Obstruction Syndrome, Veno-occlusive Disease, Stem Cell Transplant Complications
- Trial name
- NCT03858530
- Testing
- Ultrasound Examination
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 21 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Mercy Hospital Kansas City
Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis
Conditionally Increased Output (CIO) Enhanced Ultrasound System
This study aims to assess possible bioeffects that may be caused by the use of shear wave elastography (SWE) with conditionally increased acoustic output pressure (CIO).
- Conditions
- Nonalcoholic Fatty Liver, Nonalcoholic Steatohepatitis, Fatty Liver
- Trial name
- NCT05792423
- Testing
- GE ultrasound system with increased acoustic output settings
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 24 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Chronic Pancreatitis, Acute Recurrent Pancreatitis
Incorporating Endoscopic Ultrasound and Elastography Towards Improving Outcomes of Pediatric Pancreatitis Management
The main reason for this research study is to find out more about acute recurrent pancreatitis and chronic pancreatitis in children.
- Trial name
- NCT06068426
- Testing
- Transabdominal ultrasound Shear wave elastography
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 66 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- David Vitale MD
Fatty Liver Disease, Fibrosis, Liver
Effect of Probiotics in Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Steatohepatitis
This study will evaluate the effect of probiotics, a beneficial intestinal bacteria supplement, if it will cause improvement of the non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) and or non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH- an…
- Conditions
- Fatty Liver Disease, Fibrosis, Liver, Cirrhosis, Liver, Steatohepatitis, Nonalcoholic
- Trial name
- PRONE (NCT04175392)
- Testing
- Align Probiotic Supplement Capsule
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 14 people
- Sponsor
- Corewell Health East
Liver Disease
Magnetic Resonance Elastography in Infants
MRI \& MRE in infants
- Trial name
- MREI (NCT02201472)
- Testing
- MRI with MRE
- Volunteers
- 2 people
- Sponsor
- Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati
Malignant Thyroid Gland Neoplasm, Thyroid Gland Nodule
Ultrasound Elastography in Imaging Patients With Thyroid Nodules
This clinical trial studies how well ultrasound elastography works in assessing the cancer status of potentially malignant thyroid nodules.
- Trial name
- NCT03174925
- Testing
- Siemens Acuson S3000 ultrasound system
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 55 people
- Sponsor
- Stanford University
Breast Neoplasms
Ultrasound Elastography of Breast Lesions
Our hypothesis is that the addition of ShearWave Elastography (SWE) to a conventional breast ultrasound examination provides useful information for the radiologist when imaging lesions in the breast, as compared to conventional…
- Trial name
- BE1 (NCT00716482)
- Where
- 16 sites in United States, France and 3 more
- Volunteers
- 1,681 people
- Sponsor
- SuperSonic Imagine
Thyroid Nodule, Follicular Neoplasm
Diagnostic Accuracy of Shear-Wave Elastography for the Preoperative Risk Stratification of Follicular Lesions of the Thyroid
As many as 70-85% subjects diagnosed with a follicular lesion on biopsy and undergoing surgery will have benign lesions verified by histopathology after surgery.
- Trial name
- NCT03106337
- Testing
- Shear-Wave Elastography
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 35 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Prostate Cancer
A Pilot Trial of Sonoelastography for Planning Tumor-targeted Prostate Biopsy
Prostate cancer is the most common cancer and the second-leading cause of cancer death amongst men in the United States. Sonoelastography is an imaging technology predicated on reproducible differences in the backscattered…
- Trial name
- NCT01748890
- Testing
- Sonoelastography
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 4 people
- Sponsor
- Massachusetts General Hospital
Liver Fibrosis, Hepatitis C Virus
Magnetic Resonance Elastography for Assessment of Liver Fibrosis (MK-0000-132)(COMPLETED)
This study will assess the repeatability of Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) in both healthy volunteers and Hepatitis C Virus (HCV)-infected patients with fibrosis and lay the groundwork for the validation of MRE as an…
- Trial name
- NCT00896233
- Testing
- MRE
- Volunteers
- 10 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- Merck Sharp & Dohme LLC
Sonoelastography, Elastography
Shear Wave Sonoelastography in Pediatric Liver Fibrosis
Reliable methods of evaluating liver fibrosis using noninvasive techniques in the pediatric population are limited and inconclusive.
- Conditions
- Sonoelastography, Elastography, Elastograms, Liver Fibrosis
- Trial name
- NCT02372682
- Testing
- Shear wave sonoelastography
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 171 people, healthy volunteers welcome
- Sponsor
- St. Louis University
Chronic Liver Disease, Advanced Fibrosis
A Study to Evaluate Liver Stiffness With Shear Wave Elastography
The purpose of the study is to assess the diagnostic accuracy of Endoscopic Ultrasound (EUS) shear wave elastography in liver fibrosis staging in both normal subjects and subjects with advanced liver fibrosis/cirrhosis
- Conditions
- Chronic Liver Disease, Advanced Fibrosis, Advanced Cirrhosis
- Trial name
- NCT05097963
- Testing
- Endoscopic Ultrasound Shear Wave Elastography
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 63 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic
Acute Graft Rejection
Magnetic Resonance Elastography of Cardiac Transplant Rejection
Magnetic Resonance Elastography (MRE) for cardiac transplant patients.
- Trial name
- NCT02266914
- Testing
- Magnetic Resonance Elastography driver
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 9 people
- Sponsor
- Ohio State University
Carotid Artery Plaque
New Technologies to Determine Carotid Plaque Vulnerability in Patients With Significant Carotid Plaques
The researchers are trying to determine if the characterization of "vulnerable" carotid artery plaques can be accomplished with ultrasound-based methods that look for vessels in the plaque and measure the plaque stiffness.
- Trial name
- NCT03335033
- Testing
- Contrast-enhanced ultrasound, Shear Wave Elastography, Ultrasound Examination
- Where
- United States
- Volunteers
- 54 people
- Sponsor
- Mayo Clinic